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Welcoming a new Tobacco Licensing Scheme, bringing Victoria in line with the rest of Australia

Quit and Cancer Council Victoria today join in marking the passage of milestone legislation to introduce a licensing scheme for tobacco at the retail and wholesale levels in Victoria.

Posted 27 Nov, 2024

New Victorian data shows highest vaping prevalence in metro areas, highest smoking prevalence in regional areas

A new report from Cancer Council Victoria’s Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer (CBRC) shows a concerning prevalence of smoking and vaping across the Victorian community, broken down by local government areas (LGAs) and local public health units (LPHUs).  

Posted 31 Oct, 2024

The Con that Kills campaign airs again, as tobacco product manipulation continues

Quit has rolled out its latest reboot of an industry manipulation campaign, alerting Victorians to tobacco industry tactics that seek to addict them and in turn risk causing them significant harm by smoking.

Posted 30 Oct, 2024

Quit launches new campaign ‘The Hanky’ to empower multicultural communities with higher smoking rates to quit

Quit today launches an in-language campaign, The Hanky, to motivate quitting amongst Victorian multicultural communities with high smoking rates. This first-of-its-kind campaign focuses on Vietnamese, Mandarin and Arabic-speaking people and communiti

Posted 8 Oct, 2024
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